Chapter 1180 Alliance
At the bend of the river, a Barangay village appeared in front of us.
Datugu Majilang's Mahalika soldiers blew the buffalo horn, and a group of soldiers riding buffalo ran out of the village and came to the river.
Masur also asked his soldiers to blow the horn, which was a friendly sound.
The boat slowly sailed into the small pier by the river.
Gu Ma Cilang brought a group of people to greet him.
Almost the whole village came out to greet him. Standing at the front was Datugu Macilang, followed by his wife and children, as well as his brothers, nephews, etc. Standing on both sides were his soldiers of Mahalika. They wore He was wearing a horn helmet, put on cowhide armor, and held a flag with a small buffalo pattern.
The latter are the Tiwama free people, then the Alipin tributes, and the Alipin slaves.
Gu Macilang saw several familiar faces on the boat, Masur the Marauder, Machaas with the scar face, and Yiluo the bald head.
Ma Suer jumped off the boat, walked to Gu Macilang, and hugged him with open arms, like a brother he hadn't seen for many years, "I heard about my poor nephew, and immediately Came here."
Gu Macilang sighed. The son who was killed was his eldest son. He was brave and brave. Actually died in the hands of those outsiders.
Even the fleet with Maye Barangai Village was destroyed.
"I brought good wine, hoping to wash away the sorrow and grief!"
Scarface and Baldhead also jumped off the boat, directing Alipin on the boat to carry jars of wine down.
The tradition of Barangay, if Datu or his relatives die, all the people in Barangay will send wine or food, and then drink and mourn together, and other Barangays who are close to each other will also send wine to mourn together.
Gu Ma Cilang looked at Ma Suer, "You are still so strong!"
"I'm getting old." Ma Suer took Gu Macilang's hand and walked towards the village together.
Maye Village is named for the many abacas around it. The village is built at the bend of the river and is very simple. The village is surrounded by wooden fences, with four gates and an arrow tower at the gate.
Inside the fence are all thatched houses.
There is a two-story wooden house in the center, which is Datu's home.
The wooden house occupies a large area, and there is a large empty field in front of it, which is also the place where his soldiers usually train. After welcoming the guests into the hall of the wooden house, Gu Macilang ordered people to serve wine to the guests.
"Go and kill a few more buffaloes, and then cut some fresh sashimi."
The island of Mindoro, where Maya Village is located, is connected to Batangas by a narrow strait. It is only a few dozen miles away from Barangay in Masur, and less than three hundred miles away from San Francisco, the city of the Qin people today.
This island is very large, but relatively independent. Therefore, there is a unique small buffalo on the island. When it grows up, it will be as big as an ordinary buffalo calf. , like a big wild boar.
This kind of wild buffalo is everywhere on the island. Later, the people on the island also domesticated these small buffaloes for plowing, transportation and even riding.
For example, Maye Village generally uses small buffaloes as mounts, and Gumacilang also has a hundred-man small buffalo cavalry.
Of course, the small buffalo has also become an important food on the island, and its meat quality is not bad.
Masur didn't come to look for delicious food, he didn't have these moods at the moment.
After sitting down, he couldn't wait to ask Gu Maci, "Has the Qin family's envoy come to your place?"
"Come here." Gu Ma Cilang was full of anger. Earlier, the envoy of the Qin family came by boat under the leadership of a guide, driving a tall three-masted double-decked galleon, majestic.
Before they drove to Maye Village, they first gave some gifts.
A very fine set of china, several bolts of gorgeous silk.
Then they put forward the purpose of this trip, hoping that Maye Village can be attached to the Qin family, and will be under the management of San Francisco in the future.
"Those damned guys, they want to collect tithes from us, and they want us to send children from seven to twelve years old to San Francisco, saying that they want to cultivate education for them..."
As a Datu who owns 1,200 households in Barangay, Gu Macilang certainly cannot accept such conditions. Besides, the conditions of the Qin family are not limited to these, except for paying tithes and sending their children to San Francisco. Anyway, he felt that the so-called going to school was to be a hostage.
The Qin family also requires them to undertake a certain amount of hard labor, and all young and strong men are obliged to perform military service. Young and strong men who have reached the age of 21 are all obliged to accept military service. Free military service, and if the conditions are not met, a sum of money will be paid.
In addition, there are various conditions such as land measurement, household registration and naturalization.
How could Gu Ma Cilang accept it? His hot-tempered eldest son wanted to draw his sword even more angrily. Finally, Gu Ma Cilang scolded him before leaving.
The Tang envoy didn't recruit Maye Village, and he wasn't angry. He just mentioned that he brought a lot of goods on board and was willing to trade with Maye Village normally.
There are many good things on the Qin ship, such as iron pots, pottery, silk cloth, as well as high-quality white salt, sweet sugar and intoxicating wine.
It’s just that these things are expensive.
But the people of Qin set prices, but devalued their things to nothing.
Finally, Gu Macilang took out some of his accumulated gold and silver, together with a large amount of local products, to buy a few goods.
Qin Ship left with a full load after the transaction.
Then the son of Gu Macilang summoned the Mahalika warriors in the village, and drove all the boats to chase after him.
He wanted to rob this Tang boat, not only to get back his own gold and silver native products, but also to **** back the exquisite and attractive goods on board along with this huge Tang boat.
Gu Ma Cilang found out that it was too late to stop him, and scolded his son for being reckless, but he never expected that his son would never return after leaving.
After his son died, the fleet was seized by the Tang ship, and even the Mahalika soldiers on the ship were taken back to San Francisco. The Tang only left one prisoner, cut off his arms and bandaged them briefly, and took them back to San Francisco. He threw it on the shore and asked him to come back with a message.
The Qin family needs an explanation from Maye Village, and they will come again.
"I lost a hundred Mahalika warriors, plus two hundred Alipin Ya Jijita slaves! I also lost the entire fleet!"
"My son is gone."
Seeing Gu Ma Cilang gnashing his teeth, Ma Suer was very happy, and looked sad on the surface, "Those people came from the west and called themselves Tang people. They designated this place as their territory, called it Qindao, and established San Francisco and Xinjinshan City want us to pay tribute to them, they want to be our Rajas, and they want all of us Barangays to be their Alipins!"
"We cannot give in!"
Gu Macilang sighed, "But these people are too powerful!"
"They don't have many people!" Masur retorted, "I sent people to reconnaissance the city of San Francisco, and there were only 10,000 people. Other villages and villages had even fewer people."
The large Barangay also has one or two thousand households, and the population can be tens of thousands.
"But their galleons are too big, and we have too many weapons and equipment! My son led all my fleet to attack the Tang ship, and the whole army was wiped out. And that ship is on the side of the Qin people, isn't it? Best of all, I've heard that San Francisco has a great wall."
"Gumaci Langdatu, if we attack the Qin people with our own strength, of course we may not be their opponents, but all our Barangays can unite and drive these invaders away together. Although the Qin people are strong, But this is our territory, how many years have we been here? They have only been here for a few years? Could it be that we are willing to just hand it over like this?"
These Barangays of Luzon all came from the Boni Kingdom of Borneo, and the people of the Borneo Boni Kingdom immigrated from the island of Sumatra further west.
A long time ago, the Gandhari Kingdom was established on the island of Sumatra. The Gandhari King fought and expanded abroad. Every time he conquered a place, he appointed a Datu to rule instead of the king. In essence, it is actually an indirect rule. , or the enfeoffment system.
Gantuoli respected Buddhism, and in addition to conferring a large number of Datu to rule the newly conquered land, he also gave a large amount of land to monks to form a monk commune.
With the prosperity of the Gantuli Kingdom, many Malays began to colonize the outside world spontaneously. They drove ships out to sea and headed far away.
Some people arrived in Borneo, established a settlement there, and called themselves Datu, and later they united to establish the Boni Kingdom.
Later, the Malays in Boni Kingdom continued to go to sea in search of a new free land.
They found new lands, established new settlements, and then these lands that were not yet under the rule of the kingdom were called free lands, that is, lands that did not pay taxes.
These people established a settlement and called themselves Latour.
In these free lands, first come, first served, whoever comes first to establish a settlement, that land will be his, of course, the premise is that you can conquer the local natives or drive them away.
The Latus in these free lands don't have to pay taxes to the king, they are free, and of course they don't belong to each other. Anyway, they have lived in this way for many years.
In order to avoid conflicts and to be able to occupy more land, the Dalange settlements are kept as far apart as possible.
But in this way, it also makes the Darangai more loose.
Coupled with the insufficient number of immigrants, they have never been able to establish a country like the Malays who settled in Borneo.
In the past, when they went north from Boni, they faced the group of people who immigrated from the Indochina Peninsula a long time ago. They basically assimilated the local natives, but compared to the Malays who came over from the second wave of immigrants, those people It was still too backward, so the conflicts between them were not fierce, and they easily robbed the more fertile coastal estuary plains and other places, while the natives were forced to retreat to inland mountains and other places.
Datu has no external threats, and there is no need for a close alliance, and there are no violent territorial conflicts between them, so everyone has been getting along pretty well.
But now the arrival of the Qin people has changed all this.
The Qin people not only wanted to occupy the most fertile plains, but also required them to submit, pay taxes, and serve.
Datus are all equal, no one is more noble than others, no Datu has the power to override other Datus.
When the Qin family first came, they only regarded them as businessmen, but later reluctantly accepted that they also became the new Barangay, respecting their strength.
But now the Qin family has gone too far, they actually want to be a Rajah, want to be king!
Why?
What's more, the Qin family is not Malaiyu people of the same clan as them at all.
They are neither from Boni nor from Qian Tuoli, but from the Tang State in the west. How can everyone accept such a group of people?
(end of this chapter)